Mary Sue Henifin, JD, MPH, is an attorney with expertise in litigation, and investigation matters involving a wide array of legal issues including environmental, technology, health care and white collar defense. She is a shareholder in Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, a law firm with offices throughout the country, including Newark and Princeton. She has served as adjunct faculty member of the UMNDJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Department of Environmental and Community Medicine. She developed the Public Health Law course for the school, for which she received the Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award.

Henifin has taught Business Las and Ethics as the Executive in Residence for Rider University’s Executive MBA Program. She is also a member and former chair of the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the Federal District Court of the District of New Jersey. She previously served as a deputy attorney general for the State of New Jersey.

She has written extensively on legal issues and public health and is co-author of the New Jersey Brownfield’s Law and chapters on medical testimony and toxicology for the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, a standard work on how to present scientific evidence in court.

A graduate, with honors, from Rutgers University School of Law, Henifin graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree in biology, and she holds a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University.

Ms. Henifin was appointed to the Board in November 2007.